They look amazing! Will definitely be trying them soon!
My favorite part though was the “eating the pieces of chocolate that look to big” part…I have a feeling about half of them would turn out too big, darn my inconsistent chopping skills…..

When I first saw that picture of the chocolate I thought, “My goodness, where did she get such a gigantic chocolate bar?!” Then I realized it was just close up. Clearly I’m dreaming of giant chocolate bars.

These look so good Gina!!!! Anything with chocolate sounds amazing to me! I’m G Free so I will definitely try experimenting with a gluten free flour and see if I can find a good one! I’ll let you know 🙂

Just glancing at the pic with the cut up chocolate bar I didn’t realize it was a bar at first and thought it was fudge! Now I’m craving making fudge 😛 I was also a little concerned since that was the teaser pic for the post and I had no clue what you were doing with fudge and a sweet potato, but now that I’ve read the entire post I’m better and also wanting chocolate.

These look delicious – I am obsessed with sweet potatoes right now, so why not put them in dessert too? And now I have two recipes to choose from (realistically, i will probably make both). ALSO – I tried your lentil/quinoa salad last night… SO GOOD. Thank you for the recipe! And the boy also scarfed it up, which is saying something, since he has eating habits similar to the Pilot, but is a little more stubborn when it comes to coming to my side of the tracks 😉 Thanks again! <3

I hope the cookies were delicious. I tried out the sweet potato brownie recipe last week and wasn’t a fan, but figured out after re-reading the recipe that I forgot to add any sweetener (no agave, no sugar, etc)!!! Maybe that’s why? 😉

I recently purchased some vegan marshmallows from whole paycheck, tj’s graham crackers, and endangered species dark chocolate squares = smore heaven! They are really good with the mint endangered species chocolate too! 🙂

Those look so fluffy and delicious! Have you ever tried using garbanzo beans in a dessert before? It sounds very strange, but I’ve had it in a chocolate cake and its chocolate spongy goodness! Definitely worth a try!

I remember a looong time ago I made Hungry Girl’s brownies – which is basically brownie mix + 1 can of pumpkin or sweet potatoes and they were actually good! Pretty fudgy and dense. I’ll bet these cookies are a much better version (err and in cookie form) 🙂 Looks yummy, Gina!

I am the opposite – I used to only think of sweet potatoes as dessert (growing up in the Philippines, it was always prepared with some sort of sugar). I love a baked sweet potato with chocolate flavored almond butter. These cookies sound lovely, I wish I had 1 right now!

This recipe looks awesome, I can’t wait to try it! One question though…can you buy coconut oil in any grocery store, or would it need to be a specialty/health foods store? Anything you could substitute in case I can’t find it? I don’t have a lot to work with as far as grocery stores go where I live

Completely and totally agree with the perils of sweet + regular food – wont even eat pineapple on pizza. But….actually love chocolate zucchini bread. Friend made some with a hint of cinnamon as well that was amazing. I am a very picky eater and I loved it…pretty sure I could even trick my son into eating it and hes the kid who wont eat spaghetti sauce cause its got red and green stuff.

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